Click on the surname to find out more regarding
the origins
of my Direct lines of research.

BRYCE - Lanark, SCT, Lancashire, ENG,
Victoria and South Australia

CREER- Isle of Man, England and all Australia

DIXON - Scotland and Victoria, Australia

GIBBS - Hampshire, England
and South Australia

O'LOUGHLIN-O'LOCHLIN, Ireland
and South Australia

JOHNSTONE - Midlothian, SCT,
Victoria and South Australia

LAMPARD - Kent and Sussex, ENG,
South Australia and Victoria

MATHER - Midlothian, SCT,
South Australia and Victoria

TAUBMAN - Isle of Man
 
 
 

BRYCE

James Bryce  b. c. 1820 and his wife Margaret McLean
had five children all born in Bridgeton near Glasgow in Scotland.
Margaret died when the youngest, Helen, was two. The eldest,
James, remained in Scotland and married Margaret Campbell
CHAPMAN while John, Margaret, Mary and Helen
made their way, like the Creer family, to the textile
mills in England to find work.
There, Margaret married William CHADWICK, a
Yorkshire man. In 1876 the CHADWICKs together
with James and Margaret BRYCE immigrated to
South Australia on board the "Duntrune" with
their young families.
In 1884, they sponsored the immigration of
Mary who married a young Irishman,
Terence O'LOUGHLIN,  my husband's great-grandparents.
John arrived in 1909  and finally, in 1924, the BRYCE
family sponsored their widowed sister Helen PARKIN
and her grown children. The CHADWICKs, O'LOUGHLINs
and BRYCEs remained in South Australia. Helen PARKIN
and her younger children went to Victoria.
 
 
 
 

CREER

 

The Isle of Man is situated in the Irish Sea between
the coasts of Ireland and the U.K.
Fiercely independant, the Isle of Man
maintains its sovereignty
to this day making it sometimes difficult to
research the early records.
Charles CREER was born February 1827 in Douglas
He married Elizabeth TAUBMAN
(another old Manx name)
and moved their little family to England.
Their second son, Charles, was born May 2, 1860 in
Manchester, England only a year after his parents left
the Isle in order to find work in the textile mills of Manchester.
On February 4, 1883 he married Elizabeth Ann DUCKWORTH,
a native of Manchester. The newlywed couple soon boarded
the "Glamis" bound for South Australia. They paid
the princely sum of 4 pounds for their passage.
The month  before their departure Charles wrote to
his sister Sarah HOSKINS in Dalton, Lancashire,  saying

"We shall not be able to come to see you
as we shall require all the money we have for our expenses."
 

Later in this letter is this heartfelt and prophetic paragraph

"......if you can come down and let us have a look at you
before we go as we may never meet on this earth again."
 

Charles and Elizabeth had 7 children before Charles
tragically died of heart disease in 1899 leaving
Elizabeth to raise her family alone.
Their only son, Charles William, was my husband's
grandfather.

On my LINKS page you will find sites useful for research
on the Isle of Man as well as John A. Creer's Ballacreer site.
 
 
 
 
 

DIXON - DICKSON

Thomas Dixon was born in 1836 in Berwick on Tweed, on the border
between Scotland and England. He was the 2nd son
of James Dixon and Isabella Martin. In 1857 Thomas and
his elder brother William boarded the General Wyndham
bound for Victoria, Australia. Finding work at Mundarra Station
in the Western Districts, Thomas married a young Belfast girl,
 Margaret Cochrane and settled in the Edenhope-
Apsley area of Victoria to raise 9 children. Their eldest daughter
 Elizabeth married James Nelson LAMPARD.
Thomas' younger brother John emigrated to the United States,
Robert to Canada. This branch of the Dixon clan has been
traced back to 1725 thanks to the hard work of many including
Barbara Ritchie of Canada and Trudy Currie of Australia.
 
 
 
 
 

GIBBS

 

Thomas Gibbs was born in Vernham's Dean, Hampshire in
1811, the eldest of 8 children born to
James Gibbs and Harriet Ching. Thomas and his wife,
Elizabeth (Betsy) HUGHES arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia
in 1840. With them were their two daughters, Elizabeth,
7, and Thurza, 2 and their newborn son, Charles who was born
during their voyage to Australia. The family disappeared almost
immediately into the rapidly opening rural sectors of the infant
settlement where they had at least three more children. Thomas
and Betsy didn't settle anywhere for very long while Thomas
worked as an agricultural labourer.
Then in1854 Betsy died. That same year in Wellington,
South Australia
daughter Thurza married a young pound keeper called
William LAMPARD and in 1855 Thomas chose as his second
wife a young Irish girl, Mary IRWIN. Thomas and Mary raised
9 more children together - many descendants of whom still live
in the area of Kingston SE in South Australia. Thomas loved
his large brood and is buried amongst many descendants
in Kingston Cemetery.
 
 
 
 

LAMPARD
 

This  page is dedicated to the memory of Ernie Lampard
who departed this life  on March 2, 1999
Cousin and Friend

In 1839, Thomas Lampard, under-gamekeeper to the Earl De La Warr
on his Sussex estates, learned of the newest settlement in Australia,
the infant state of South Australia.
Originally from Kent, Thomas was the elder son of William and Ann Lampard.
Attracted by the enormous opportunites for a man who was not afraid
of hard work and persuaded by the advantages for his sons, Thomas applied
to the Earl De La Warr for sponsorship and was granted his leave to bring
his family to Australia.
Thomas was accompanied by the two sons of his first marriage to Elizabeth Milstead
nee Balding , William and George,  his second wife
Judith Jane "Julia" Edwards and his son from that marriage, James.
Together they boarded the Cleveland bound for Port Adelaide and arrived in
Port Adelaide in December of 1839.
After four years living in what is now North Adelaide and the birth of a new son,
Robert, the family made their way to Wellington at the mouth of the River Murray.
It was there Thomas settled and raised his growing family.
Their only daughter Jane was born in 1847 followed by Thomas in 1853.
Thomas died in 1868 and by 1884 his children had left the Wellington area.
The elder boys, William and James made their way to the Western Districts
of Victoria while Robert and Thomas went north in South Australia.
 Jane Julia married James Kenneth CAMPBELL and their family
remained in the Adelaide area.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 JOHNSTONE / MATHER

James Mather was a hatter in Edinburgh, Scotland.
On January 26, 1814 James married Elizabeth the eldest daugher of
William Fairbairn a respected miller, and his wife Margaret Flint.
James and Elizabeth had seven children, two of whom made their
way to Australia.
In 1849, their 20 year old daughter Margaret married
George Ramsey Johnstone who had
recently left the 90th Regiment.
George was the youngest son of Alexander Johnstone and Janet Boyd.
In 1854 George was offered the position of manager at "Newlands"
one of the newly developed sheep stations in the Western Districts
of Victoria, Australia.
He and Margaret boarded the "Charles Kerr" and headed south.
In 1860, Margaret's brother Thomas Sinclair Mather and his family
followed in their footsteps along with George's brother
William Johnstone with his wife and children.
 The Mathers settled in the southeast of South Australia while William
 made his way to Melbourne in Victoria.
In 1874, the remaining Johnstone brother, Thomas, arrived in
Victoria. Thomas was widowed and extremely ill with consumption
when he arrived with his five unmarried daughters.
His only son followed some years later.
After Thomas' death in 1875 George and Margaret Johnstone took
responsiblity for their nieces and eventually saw them married and settled
- the eldest, Marion,
to their only son Alexander.
The Mather family also thrived and prospered. Their eldest son,
John Baxter Mather grew to become a highly respected
journalist, artist and poet in South Australia.

On my Links page you will find websites for both the Mather and Johnstone clans.
 
 
 
 
 

O'LOUGHLIN
(O'LOCHLIN)

Terrance O'Loughlin is a total enigma. I can verify very little
about him. He seems to have told each person he
spoke to a different story regarding his background and the
family myths abound.
The facts are these:

TAUBMAN

 
 

The name Taubman, like Creer,  is and old Manx name with
a long and colourful history. I have an extentsive amount
of data on this family thanks to the hard work of
John Robinson of Fort Meyers, Florida, USA
and of
John and Joan Taubman here in Australia.
These descendants of this fine old family
are kind enough to share their work and, in turn, I am happy
to share it with anyone who has an interest in the name.
My own connection is the marriage in about 1850
of ElizabethTaubman to Charles Creer.
This couple are my husband's
great-great grandparents.
 
 

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